READING THE SHOAH: Poetry and Memory

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="039f0f21egerdp.jpg"> <div> <B>READING THE SHOAH: Poetry and Memory</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="038f2f02egerdp.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="lecture_teaching.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lecture/Teaching Topics for Adults"><U><B>Lecture/Teaching Topics for Adults</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id65.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Teenager Education Topics "><U><B>Teenager Education Topics</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Shoah/Holocaust"><U><B>The </B></U></A><A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Shoah/Holocaust"><U><I><B>Shoah</B></I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id48.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SHAPING THE SHOAH: the Second Generation"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Shaping the </B></U></A><A HREF="id48.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SHAPING THE SHOAH: the Second Generation"><U><I><B>Shoah</B></I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id52.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH and JEWISH WOMENS POETRY"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The </B></U></A><A HREF="id52.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH and JEWISH WOMENS POETRY"><U><I><B>Shoah</B></I></U></A><A HREF="id52.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH and JEWISH WOMENS POETRY"><U><B> and Jewish Women's Poetry</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ABRAHAM MOSES KLEIN: The Shoah Poetry"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The </B></U></A><A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ABRAHAM MOSES KLEIN: The Shoah Poetry"><U><I><B>Shoah</B></I></U></A><A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ABRAHAM MOSES KLEIN: The Shoah Poetry"><U><B> Poetry of Abraham Moses Klein</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id50.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH: Gentile Responses to Jewish D"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The </B></U></A><A HREF="id50.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH: Gentile Responses to Jewish D"><U><I><B>Shoah</B></I></U></A><A HREF="id50.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH: Gentile Responses to Jewish D"><U><B>: Gentile Responses </B></U></A><A HREF="id50.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH: Gentile Responses to Jewish D"><U><B>to Jewish Disaster</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id51.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH AND HUMAN RIGHTS"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The </B></U></A><A HREF="id51.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH AND HUMAN RIGHTS"><U><I><B>Shoah</B></I></U></A><A HREF="id51.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH AND HUMAN RIGHTS"><U><B> and Human Rights</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact JEWISH VOICES"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Contact JEWISH VOICES</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jewish Voices 200 Years of Jewish Poetry"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Home</B></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03bf0f03.jpg"> <div> <I><B>Reading the </B></I><B>Shoah</B><I><B>: Poetry and Memory</B></I></div> <bR> <div>     How have writers approached the supposedly unspeakable? What strategies have they devised to enter the imagined world of  real atrocities without falsifying either history or artistic endeavor? How have they figured victim and torturer, women and men, individual and mass suffering?  What forms have they conjured to "place" the Shoah within history, either personal or public?  How does their imagery revise existing forms of expression to voice a unique phenomenon?  How do they manipulate their readers?  Is "art" incompatible with genocide?   Why has Shoah poetry been so little analyzed and so little taught in schools and universities?  </div> <bR> <div>     Writings by refugees, survivors, concerned witnesses<B>,</B><B> </B>and others, with attention to major issues of gender, particularism and universality.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>